Click here for NewTeeVee’s interview with Congdon who, in her first installment, takes to the New York streets to ask people how they feel about being person of the year. Then she switches gears.

“Halfway through I realized Time magazine had taken a left turn somewhere. They had the right idea going into it, but they got greedy with that catchy headline,” she says. “I guess, independent media makers who publish their work online doesn’t really have the same ring to it.”

But that’s the reality, she contends. “The collective you is not person of the year although many of you are,” she says. “Not everyone participated in the media revolution. Gosh, many people I spoke with had never heard of a blog, in New York City. Of course, there are too many millions, yes millions, of bloggers, podcasters and video bloggers to name us all. We are the people of the year, not you. Now that’s something to celebrate.”

Aren’t we special, er, aren’t you special? But more about that in a minute.

Also celebrating is (famously estranged from Congdon) Rocketboom founder Andrew Michael Baron and entrepreneur Jeff Pulver, who are forming a network studio called Abbey Corps, just in time to steal some of the thunder behind Congdon’s debut. Click here for the skinny on the new studio from NewTeeVee. Baron is going to tell all about his new studio in a series of blog posts, he says.

Back on Planet Amanda (possible slogan: all Amanda all the time), her new show concludes with a disclaimer. “This is not a television show. Please don’t make Amanda mad by calling this TV.”

We weren’t even tempted to make Amanda mad, but there are some striking similarities between this self-fashioned new-and-oh-so-independent media personality and her old-media predecessors, making her first show’s message a bit dubious at best. Not only has Congdon, who is simultaneously working with ABC, HBO and her own production, gone Hollywood and not so independent anymore, she’s gone corporate, too, pimping for her oh so very mainstream sponsor, Dove. She’s even getting her viewers to wiki up to design a Dove commercial for its “Real Beauty” campaign.

Kind of reminds us of the John Waters saying: “I’d love to sell out completely. It’s just that nobody has been willing to buy.” Fortunately for Congdon, we’re buying.